Assistant Manager – Commercial Advisory and Assurance – Major Projects Advisory

Base Location: London, Manchester and Birmingham, plus a network of 20 offices nationally

KPMG’s Major Projects Advisory (MPA) team works closely with some of the most influential and innovative industry-leading organisations, across both the public and private sectors, helping them navigate and successfully resolve some of the most complex and significant challenges inherent in large-scale infrastructure and construction projects. As a true market leader, our reputation is built upon a proven track record of deep expertise, innovative solutions, and commitment to client success.

The MPA team in the UK are based in London, Birmingham and Manchester. This role will be based in one of these locations but could require some travel to client locations throughout the UK and occasionally overseas.

Why join KPMG in Major Projects Advisory?

We provide clarity to Boards, Executives, and Senior Responsible Owners (SROs) within major public and private sector organisations regarding the delivery of their projects and programmes.  We work on some of the UK’s most strategically important projects and programmes, across all sectors including power and utilities, transport, corporates, oil and gas, defence, health, natural resources, housing and education.

Our team comprises specialists with deep construction industry experience, with experience working for project owners, contractors, cost and engineering consultants and others in the UK and overseas.

With our continuous growt

We are seeking a talented individual with experience of Procurement implementations and detailed working knowledge of Source to Pay software including one or more of the following; Coupa, Ivalua, Oracle, GEP, ZIP, ORO or ServiceNow. While predominantly focusing on ensuring successful delivery of our programmes you will play an important role in several key areas, including:
•    Procurement Solution Architectures – driving business strategy that meets the relevant client business, technology and regulatory requirements
•    Delivery Excellence – achievement of high-quality outcomes in the delivery of products or services to our clients. 
•    Practice Development – Ensuring that the team continues to deliver value to our clients through understanding leading practice developments, potential disruptors to the market in the shape of new technologies (including Agentic AI, intake and orchestration) and helping to ensure the team are sufficiently equipped to support our clients
•    Sales Support – Providing your experience and knowledge into the sales cycle ensuring our clients are set up for success  

KPMG’s Deal Execution practice is looking for exceptional candidates for an Associate Director role, with a technology, digital, AI and M&A specialisation.

The successful candidate will be expected to:

• Developing end to end Oracle solutions using the best of good industry practise combined with understanding the optionality available within the product.
• Lead the end to end delivery of workstreams, including managing offshore teams in the delivery of Oracle HCM Cloud transformations and business process change.
• Leading client facing meetings and facilitation of workshops with larger groups of client teams
• Lead an offshore team to design, configure and test a module or process area to successful deployment for a client
• Develop lasting client relationships and actively building a network and range of experience to help address client needs
• Be a role model to the wider team by showcasing our values and principles, leading from the front and by example.

Associate Director - Deal Execution - Integration & Separation

KPMG’s Deal Execution practice is looking for exceptional candidates for an Associate Director role. The Deal Execution team is part of KPMG’s rapidly expanding Strategy Group, which delivers value for clients by challenging conventional thinking, bringing deep industry and functional insights and executing with investor-grade rigour.  We are a diverse team working collaboratively with and orchestrating KPMG’s broad set of capabilities within our Deal Advisory business, and are focused on continually enhancing value for clients across the deal and economic cycle. Our teams comprise of specialists capable of helping clients right through from conceptual thinking of buying a business to turning their business around in times of difficulty.

The Deal Execution Advisory Team

KPMG's Deal Execution Advisory Team is a growing and dynamic team. We work with both vendors and acquirers on mergers, acquisitions, divestments, exits and joint ventures, both pre and post-deal.

The team offers four key proposition areas:

Separation: Supporting vendors to plan and deliver a credible, discrete standalone entity to the Buyer with value preserved and business continuity in place from Day 1, including supporting the definition and implementation of transitional service agreements.

Integration: Pre and post deal integration design, planning and implementation to integrate the target business into the Buyer’s organisation whilst mitigating risk and enhancing value.

Synergies: Understanding the potential benefits and costs generated through a proposed transaction, and the associated plans, interdependencies, risks and issues for the delivery of base and stretch case targets.

Joint Ventures: Helping respective partners ensure the key value considerations are identified and prioritised early and delivered through the associated business plan, leveraging each party’s specific contribution and capabilities and managing broader stakeholder relationships.